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Jennifer Derr
University of California, Santa Cruz
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz CA 95064
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
History Of Science
Environment
History Of Medicine
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Egypt
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (advanced)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2009 | History | Stanford University
MA | 2001 | CCAS | Georgetown University
Abstracts
Agriculture, the Nile's Water, and Senses of Time in Colonial Egypt The Power of Sweetness The Evolving Properties of the Colonial State: Practicing Colonial Rule through Agriculture in Egypt’s South Troubling Medical Practice: bilharzia in Egypt between two world wars The Well-Watered Subject: Economy, disease, and the relationship between space and subjectivity in colonial Egypt Defining the Doctors and Patients of Public Health in Interwar-Period and Nasserist Egypt